CHERI MAGID

Cheri’s Magid’s plays, which include The Virtues of Raw Oysters, The Tavern Wench, Dumporama, and Manna have been seen at Primary Stages (where she is a member of the Dorothy Strelson Writers’ Group) New Georges, The New Group, The Women’s Project, Keen Company, Rattlestick, La Mama, Abingdon Theatre Company, The Lark, Centenary Stage, South Coast Repertory, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The University of Iowa and Sarah Lawrence College.  She is currently writing the musical First Lady of Christmas commissioned by producer/director Jackson Gay with music by Evan Palazzo.  South Coast commissioned her play et al; as well as an adaptation of the children’s story The Reluctant Dragon.  The Keen Company commissioned her children’s play The Ghost of Enoch Charlton, which, along with Manna, has been published by Playscripts.  Excerpts of Manna are also included in The Best Stage Scenes of 2009 published by Smith and Kraus. Her erotica writing is profiled here. Lydia, or the Girl at the Wheel, Cheri’s radio play about the earliest days of burlesque, aired on National Public Radio and her short story Yeah, We Got That, was featured on Playboy Radio.  She wrote the screenplay Story of D, about the real story behind the writing of the famous sadomasochistic novel Story of O, for Nicole Kidman and adapted the book Heart of the Game for film producer Richard Wiener (Any Given Sunday).  She is currently writing a TV pilot with Julie Powell (Julie and Julia) and is a professor of TV at New York University.

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